Welcome to the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Trainee Funding Opportunity Index. LDFP trainees may qualify for several funding and fellowship opportunities. Please ensure that you review the guidelines for each opportunity and discuss the funding opportunity with your supervisor. Feel free to reach out to the research office for additional questions (Mike Folinas, Sam D’Alfonso, or Lia Cardarelli)

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Search for various funding opportunities by entering a search term into the Pivot search widget below. Please note this will open up a new tab and may require a login or the creation of an account.

You can take full advantage of all the features Pivot has to offer.  Register for an account to make searching for new and updated funding opportunities easier; you can even set up weekly email notifications that are based on your profile to ensure you do not miss any relevant opportunities.

Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows

Award Explorer

Are you interested in awards at the University of Toronto? Whether you’re thinking of coming to U of T – or you are a current student pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies – this tool can help you explore the diverse funding opportunities that recognize your achievements and financially support your studies.

The graduate and Postdoctoral Awards databases are available here.

Centre for Global Disability Studies - Small Grants Fund

The Centre for Global Disability Studies (CGDS) at the University of Toronto Scarborough has grants available for faculty, graduate students, and researchers in your unit.   These easy-to-apply-for grants of $500-1500 can be used for accessible research, knowledge dissemination or community engagement, improving access to academic events, or any aspect of hosting a disability studies event on campus.

Common Questions:

Is my project sufficiently related to disability studies?
The Centre for Global Disability Studies promotes transdisciplinary research that understands disability as a social and political formation and ableism as a historical system of oppression with intersections with racism, colonialism, sexism, and classism. We do not fund medical research or clinical studies. We do fund social science and humanities projects that have a relationship to questions about ableism in the world.

You can see what folks have used small grants for in the past on the website if you need some inspiration. You can also get creative! Here are some ideas:

  • Do you want your published article to be open access but need to pay a fee?
  • Do you need an RA to update your website that helps community members find your research? 
  • Do you need an RA to help you organize a meeting or prepare a letter or video to communicate research findings with research participants or the broader community
  • Do you want to purchase a piece of technology that will help you communicate with research participants? 
  • Do you need a piece of software that will make organizing your research more accessible for you?
  • Do you want to pay a research participant to serve as a community expert consultant for your project? 
  • Do you want to pay a community disability advocate to speak in your working group or department? 
  • Do you want your department colloquium to have live captioning?
  • Do you need to improve the accessibility in the grad student lounge in your department?
  • Are you organizing a campus event on a theme related to disability justice with another organization and need a cosponsor? 

Is my research “global” enough?

  • The small grants are flexible. Please apply. You might hear back suggestions about how you could revise your research plan to be better aligned with anti-racist and anti-colonial justice, but, if you are already considering ableism as a pervasive, transnational system of oppression, your research is eligible. However, grant proposals for research that takes a curative approach to disability and/or does not substantively engage with disability studies will be returned for revision. Moreover, accessible events grants do not need to pertain only to disability studies but can be requested for any campus event.

 Click here to learn more or to apply.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) - Free online training on patient engagement

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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) has developed a set of online, self-directed, free modules related to Patient Engagement (PE) in research! IMHA’s patient partners identified a need for more training in patient engagement and set to work filling the gap for practical tools and resources to help people do patient engagement in research. Modules must be completed in chronological order; after completing each module, you will receive a certificate. While the modules have been developed by IMHA, they are not disease- or condition-specific and are applicable to any research where patient partners are engaged.

Course: A How-to Guide for Patient Engagement in Research

  • Module 1: What is patient engagement?
  • Module 2: The research process: (a) Understanding the research process for patient partners and (b) Supporting patient partners throughout the research process for other members of the research team
  • Module 3: Setting up a research project for successful partnership

  • Module 4: Patient engagement for research teams: (a) Being part of a research team for patient partners and (b) Engaging patients on your research team for other members of the research team

If you have any questions about the training or accessing the modules, please contact imha-iala@cihr-irsc.gc.ca and follow @CIHR_IMHA for related announcements! 

Call for Applications: CIHR's Health System Impact Fellowship

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship provides an embedded research opportunity for highly-qualified PhD trainees and post-doctoral researchers studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields. This is a unique opportunity for awardees to:

  • apply their research and analytic talents to critical health system challenges that are being addressed by health system organizations (e.g., public, private for-profit, not-for-profit, and Indigenous health organizations) outside of the traditional university setting, and
  • develop and expand professional experience, new skills, and networks.

While embedded in a health system partner organization for the duration of their fellowship, awardees are exposed to how a health system organization works, how decisions are made, and how research and analytic skills contribute to an organization's rapid learning and improvement. Accordingly, the program also aims to build embedded research capacity in health system organizations to support the advancement of learning health systems (LHSs) across Canada.

Funds are allocated across two mutually exclusive streams. 

  • HSI Award for Doctoral Trainees (Stream A): The maximum amount per award is $50,000 for up to 1 year. Of this:
    • Stipend: $45,000
    • Professional development training and research allowance: $5,000*
  • HSI Awards for Post-Doctoral Researchers (Stream B): The maximum amount per award is $155,000 for up to 2 years. Of this:
    • Stipend: $70,000 per year
    • Professional development training and research allowance: $7,500* per year

* Note: A supplemental $5,000 per year may be awarded to fellows funded in the Northern and International pools to supplement their professional development training allowance in recognition of the disproportionately high cost of living in and travel to/from these regions (see How to Apply for details).

Partner Matching Contributions

  • CIHR and Health Research BC will contribute up to a maximum of 70% of the total award value (i.e., $35,000 of the $50,000 doctoral award and $108,500 of the $155,000 post-doctoral award). See relevant research areas for further information.
  • Applicants must secure the remaining 30% of the award value in cash from the host partner organization at the time of application (see Eligibility section).

Important Dates:

  • MRA deadline (internal to UofT): June 26, 2025
  • CIHR/ResearchNet application deadline: July 3, 2025
  • Anticipated Notice of Decision: February 18, 2026
  • Funding Start Date:  April 1, 2026

MRA Instructions:

Applications for the CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship Program requires a two-stage application: the full application to CIHR, filed through ResearchNet by the applicant, and a separate MRA (My Research Application) filed internally to the University of Toronto by the Academic Supervisor listed on the application (students are not able to access the MRA system directly). Detailed instructions for the submission of a MRA can be found at: MRA User Guide. 

The following documents must be attached to the MRA.

  • Draft copy of the proposal: The MRA application draws on materials that are part of the CIHR application and does not require any additional application materials. The MRA also does not require that the CIHR application be 100% complete: a draft copy of the research proposal is more than acceptable, as long as the important specifics of the application (supervisor, department, proposed research title, program applied to etc.) are completed.
  • Signature Pages: Please update the information for the Health System Supervisor, the Academic Supervisor, the Research Institution and Institution Paid before downloading the Signature pages. Please ensure the signature pages meet the following guidelines:
    • Page 1 - Routing Slip: This page must display the Funding Opportunity Name, the name of the Nominated Principal Applicant, Title of the Project, Relevant Research Area and Title of Priority Announcement/Funding Pools.   
    • Page 2 - Participant Signatures: 
      • Signature of the Nominated Principal Applicant is not required for the application.
      • Signatures from the Health System Supervisor and the Academic Supervisor must be obtained. 
    • Page 3 :
      • Signature of Research Institution:
        • The Health Partner Organization will sign as the Research Institution. 
        • Signature of Institution Paid:
          • The Research Services Office at the University of Toronto will sign as the "Institution Paid". UofT will execute the signature page on receipt of a MRA from the academic supervisor and completion of signatures by all other participants. 

Contact:

For questions regarding MRA submission, please contact Kitishia-Trista Cordner (kitishia.cordner@utoronto.ca).

Université Paris Cité - University of Toronto Doctoral Mobility Program

Université Paris Cité (UPCité) and the University of Toronto (U of T) are launching a joint call for co-supervised PhD Mobility. The purpose of the fund is to strengthen research collaboration and doctoral training between the universities by supporting joint PhD projects across all disciplines. 

Eligibility 

  • Principal Investigators (PIs) 
    • U of T faculty members must meet the University’s definition of a PI  
    • UPCité faculty members must be from doctoral schools or laboratories and be able to supervise PhD students 
  • Student Eligibility 
    • U of T PhD students who will be registered in the first or second year of their PhD program in 2025-26. 
    • UPCité students who have obtained or will obtain a master's degree or equivalent diploma in 2024 or 2025. 

Important Dates 

  • Application deadline – July 16, 2025 
  • Notification date – July 23, 2025 

Funding Details & Duration 

  • 12,000€ to the PhD student from UPCité for a 12-month research period at U of T 
  • $15,000 CAD to the PhD student from U of T for a 12-month research period at UPCité 
  • The joint call is intended to fund up to 3 years of a PhD fellowship and 12 months of travel/living expenses in Paris or Toronto, starting in September 2025. 

For more information on this call, including detailed instructions on how to submit a proposal, please see the funding opportunities page. 

If you have questions, please be in touch with Elina Tulla, Research Officer, Office of the Vice-President International at international@utoronto.ca. 

Faculty are encouraged to review U of T’s safeguarding research resources when developing their proposals. 

Do not use MRA to submit this application.